ABC Capacity Building Projects India, Sri Lanka,

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ABC Capacity Building Projects India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal Report by Dipendra Manocha OBJECTIVE Availability of content in least developed countries Building basic library infrastructure to bring in afficiency and accountability Compatibility with international standards Holistic solution of Kit, Content and Confidence Fill technology gaps CHALLENGES Lack of library infrastructure with registration of members with bonafide print disabilities and book distribution system and records Lack of capacity to produce accessible digital books No connectivity with publishers. Thus all accessible books were to be republished from scratch Technology gaps of TTS, OCR, screen reading software, DAISY players and braille conversion software in local languages Lack of holistic solution Braille presses not connected to new digital book resources INDIA Project Activities and Outcome Meetings and seminars for orientation, awareness and acceptability: 6 states and 500 beneficiaries Collaboration with one Central Government and 9 State Text Book Boards to adopt inclusive publishing policy and work flow. Government of Rajasthan adopted policy of preparing master digital files in Unicode based font in EPUB 3 format Accessible book production training in 9 states, 125 beneficiaries Production of 170 titles covering 40000 pages in accessible format 700 students received book reading device with content and training Building capacity in 8 braille presses to use available accessible E-text resources Additional Outcomes due to capacity building programme Launch of Multi-agency combine Online library with 320000 titles; 26000 members About 4000 daisy player/android devices distributed to end users by Government of India 120000 pages covering 300 titles of higher education produced in accessible format text books of senior school classes of several States produced by Indian organisations and Bookshare Screen reading software and daisy player released in high quality seven Indian languages Bangladesh Project Activities and Outcome Meetings and seminars for orientation, awareness and acceptability - Given to 100 end users. 60 resource persons trained on production of accessible book format 40000 pages covering 200 titles of higher secondary and university books produced in accessible format 52 students received android reading device 110 students received training on usage of android device Approx. 500 persons with blindness purchased android devices About 50 books downloaded and given to 100 students from ABC Books service Till date 3000 direct recipients of accessible books from YPSA library Bangladesh Additional Outcomes due to capacity building programme Access to Information (a2i) Programme, Prime Minister Office in collaboration with YPSA has been recognised as champion